The last thing to collapse is the surface.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.